Tang was one of Sha Dingzhou's main think tanks, and he had a very clear understanding of the situation in Guangxi.

He led the army into Gui, what he did was the icing on the cake, Ding Kuichu's army sang the leading role in front, and he just helped on the side.

Now that the Ding family is dead, what do you want to make waves in Guangxi with these 5,000 people? On the contrary, the imperial court will definitely mobilize the soldiers and horses of various state capitals to encircle and suppress themselves.

He was also extremely decisive, and immediately ordered the soldiers who were camping to stop what they were doing, immediately turn around, and march back to Yunnan overnight according to the way they came.

The next day, when Tang Ke's soldiers arrived near Dapeng, his patrol cavalry caught a post man who was heading east nearby and turned over all the letters he was carrying.

Guest Tang looked through these letters one by one, and saw that all parts of Guangxi reported the situation under the rule to the auxiliary political king to show their loyalty.

He learned from the information leaking between the lines that almost all of Guangxi has now been ordered by the imperial court.

What worries him the most is the situation in Liuzhou, which is the only way for him to return to Yunnan. When he passed through Maungyi County a while ago, he heard that more than 3,000 people were heading south from Guilin, saying that they were going to help defend Wuzhou, and that they were going to the vicinity of Liuzhou at the right time.

Now that Ding Kuichu is gone, these soldiers are likely to be stationed in Liuzhou City.

Tang took out the map irritably and looked at it, and saw that the two mountain ranges of Yuecheng Ridge and Dayao Mountain were crossing in front of him, passing through the gap between these two mountains, and heading west to reach Yunnan.

However, Liuzhou is blocked in the traffic between the two mountains, and if he is blocked under the city of Liuzhou, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck.

But in addition to this road, if you want to continue westward, you can only walk six or seven hundred miles south, bypass Dayao Mountain, and then make a big circle from Guinan to enter Yunnan.

He had no other choice, and was about to give the order to go south, when he suddenly heard an officer whipping a non-commissioned officer in the distance. He frowned and asked the guard to inquire about the situation, and after a while the guard returned, saying that a soldier had abandoned the rope knife on the side of the road because he was in the way of the rapid march, and was found by the officer, so he was beaten.

The rope knife is a tool used by the ethnic minorities in Yunnan to assist in mountain climbing, and can also be used as a weapon in wartime.

Rope knives? Hearing this, the Tang guest slapped his thigh hard, yes, how did he forget that the mountain can be climbed.

He himself was a Han scholar, and later joined the family of Sha Dingzhou's wife Wan, and was used as an officer by Sha Dingzhou because of his strategy.

It was because he habitually didn't think about climbing the mountain, so he listened to what the guards said, so he saved that his subordinates were all mountain people who were very good at climbing.

"What Dayao Mountain around? Just flip it over! He looked at the map again, and only had to climb over Dayao Mountain, and there was no army stationed in Sanzhou and other places, so it should be unimpeded all the way.

He was very happy, so he recruited his officers, ordered the army to cook and repair on the spot, and sent cavalry to catch some guides at the foot of Dayao Mountain, and began to climb the mountain early tomorrow morning.

……

In the city of Liuzhou.

"My lord, all the scouts sent yesterday have returned, but no trace of the Tang family has been found."

Zhai Shi put on his helmet and armor, just waiting for the Tang guests to kill the people to lead the people to defend the city, but since the day before yesterday, the five thousand Yunnan soldiers and horses seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

When he heard this, his brows tightened, and he was afraid that something would happen that would cause him to bear the trust of His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King, and he hurriedly ordered his opponent: "Hurry! Send twice as many people to find it, and don't come back if you don't have the whereabouts of the soup guests! ”

Several officers looked at each other helplessly, said "subordinates obey the order", and went to each place to order troops. But one of them took a few steps, turned around and came back to Zhai Shiyun and said, "My lord, there is a strange thing, I don't know if it has anything to do with the thief army." ”

"Tell me about it."

"The subordinate department heard near Mengshan County that someone fished out an object from the Menghe River, which is rumored to be a demon weapon of Hexian Town. Thousands of people in the area go to burn incense and worship. ”

"River Immortal Artifact?" Zhai Shiyun squinted his eyes and said, "Have you seen this?" ”

The officer summoned the scout who reported the news, and the latter only heard that it was nearly a foot high, tightly bound by dragon ribs, and painted with many charms on it, as if it were a pagoda.

Zhai Shiyun was quite puzzled when he heard this, and there was no trace of the enemy for a hundred miles around the left and right, so he immediately asked people to bring his mount and rushed to check the only clue overnight.

When he arrived in Mengshana Village and saw the "magic weapon" in the fragrant mist, his heart was tight, and he was busy asking people to carefully investigate whether there was anything unusual nearby.

Soon, a soldier replied, saying that the two villages adjacent to Dayao Mountain were suddenly robbed by strongmen the day before yesterday, but they did not lose their money, and only robbed more than ten hunters.

Zhai Shiyun hurriedly went to the village and asked someone if there was a road into the mountain nearby, and whether it could lead directly to the west side of the mountain. Youli pointed to a gentle slope two miles away, saying that it was possible to go up the mountain from there, but the road only stopped at the mountainside.

Zhai Shiyun breathed a sigh of relief at this time, first carefully looked at the map on the west side of Dayao Mountain, and then asked Pegasus to rush back to Liuzhou, and ordered the soldiers and horses in the city to go south immediately and rush to Sanzhou.

Then he greeted the accompanying officers and guards, and returned to Liuzhou in the starry night.

The general of his ministry was puzzled by this series of instructions, and finally someone couldn't help but ask, "My lord, you said that His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King wants us to stick to Liuzhou, why did you transfer the army away?" ”

Zhai Shiyun made up a whip on the horse's stock, turned his head and said, "Do you know what those villagers fished out of the river?" ”

"Isn't it the Demon Bone Tower?"

"Naturally not. The outer hoop of that thing was the tusks of a giant elephant, which was framed with iron and wood, and the top should have been covered with cowhide, which was actually the war drum of the Tu tribe in Yunnan. It's just that the cowhide of the drum surface is rotten, and it looks like a pagoda. ”

The officer was also shocked when he heard this, "War drums? Could it be ......?"

"It must be carried by the Tang guests." Zhai Shiyun said, "He sank this giant drum into the river, just to be light. In addition, the hunters were lost in the nearby villages, and they should have been captured as guides. With all these thoughts, he must have led the army into Dayao Mountain, wanting to go over the mountain and bypass Liuzhou to the west. ”

After a day and a half, Zhai Shiyun caught up with his own brigade, and sent cavalry to explore the foot of the mountain on the west side of Dayao Mountain, and sent a letter to His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King, indicating that the Tang family did not go to Liuzhou, but went over Dayao Mountain.

As Zhai Shiyun expected, his department had just arrived in Sanzhou on the west side of Dayao Mountain, and before the camp had been settled, a scout horse rushed back and said loudly: "Report!" More than ten miles away, a large group of men and horses were found, and they were marching towards our army. ”

Zhai Shiyun was also afraid for a while, if it weren't for someone in Mengshan County who fished out the war drums of the Tang guests, I am afraid that he would really have to flee back to Yunnan.

He hurriedly instructed his officers, "Let the soldiers not rush to the camp first," he looked around the terrain, but it was flat, and finally had to choose a place close to the stream, "and quickly set up a position there, ready to face the enemy!" ”

It's just that the mobilization of the army took a lot of time, and when Zhai Shiyun's headquarters had just dug a shallow trench on the scheduled battlefield, they had already seen the team of men and horses dressed in black appear in the field of vision from a distance.

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